Every category where a model named CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	21 of 80	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative5 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Alternatives to consider first: CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight (agent-strong, low noise)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Vuln management · negative prompt · first choice

“If you already use a major Endpoint Protection (EDR) suite: Look at CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Relying on EDR *alone* for vulnerability management leaves a major gap in your attack surface.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management13 of 182Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM11 of 182Not in the top three

Tenable9 of 181Not in the top three

Wiz9 of 180Not in the top three

Qualys VMDR8 of 181Not in the top three

Qualys8 of 180Not in the top three

Rapid77 of 180Not in the top three

Tenable Vulnerability Management4 of 181Not in the top three

Orca Security4 of 180Not in the top three

OpenVAS3 of 180Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 18 answers that named CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axis-intelligence.com9

riskwatch.com9

techrepublic.com9

expertinsights.com8

orca.security6

vicarius.io6

checkthat.ai5

ciopages.com5

beaglesecurity.com4

gartner.com4

Sixty-five of the sixty-five domain citations in answers naming CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested9

riskwatch.com/vulnerability-management-software9

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools9

expertinsights.com/security-operations/the-top-vulnerability-management-solutions6

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools6

checkthat.ai/answers/what-is-the-best-vulnerability-management-software5

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/vulnerability-management5

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-10-vulnerability-management-platforms-20264

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight; a claim can dispute any of them.

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